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After, February 2006
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February 2006
On Sale: February 7, 2006
ISBN: 0060779160
EAN: 9780060779160
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Fiction Poetry
"Words are not the end of thought, they are where it
begins," ends the first poem in After, Jane Hirshfield’s
extended investigation into incarnation, transience, and our
intimate connection with others and with all existence.
These alert, incisive, and compassionate poems examine the
human condition through subjects ranging from spareness,
possibility, judgment, and hidden grief to global warming,
insomnia, the meanings to be found in generally over-looked
parts of speech, and the metaphysics of sneezing. In respective series of "assays" (meditative imaginative
accountings) and "pebbles" (each a "brief, easily pocketable
perception that remains incomplete until the reader’s own
response awakens inside it"), Hirshfield explores a
poetry-making that looks simultaneously outward and inward,
finding resonant and precise containers for the deepest
currents of our inner life. After is also a book of elegies, both overt and implicit,
both personal and culturally shared. Throughout sounds a
bass-note awareness of time: its inexorable effects on our
lives and the plunge into the moment’s richness that brings
our singular, paradoxical recourse against its erasure. This
is a profound, generous, and masterful sixth collection by
one of the preeminent American poets of her generation.
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